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SHAME

Rare is the evening where I sit down to watch the local news broadcast. I just can't stomach them for the most part as what you're getting is recycled news regurgitated by a talking head with poundcake thick make-up.

But I felt compelled to monitor our local news broadcasts last night, being that this is Miami, a city with a huge Cuban-American community, and of course that a Cuban prisoner of conscience was basically murdered by the regime that incarcerated him.

Not a one mentioned the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo during their six o'clock broadcasts.

Nor do they have any information on this heartbreaking story up on their website:

NBC6WFOR CBS (who ran a 5 minute piece on a woman's cat being accidentally killed)WPLG (who have a piece on Lula stating the fidel is alive and doing well)WSVN Fox

Four stations serving a community and not a single one covered the murder of a man who was only seeking his freedom.

7 comments to SHAME

Val - that is par for the course once it comes to local english language media. If there isn't video - it doesn't get covered. Car accidents, homicides, burglaries and vandalism...throw in a smattering of gimmicky health reports and canned interviews with network stars plugging their new show and voila!

I used to mock spanish language media but Telemundo and Univision for all their sensationalism cover more hard news in a day than their english counterparts do all week.

On the other hand, Val, most of the English written blogosphere (the bigger sites, anyway) haven't covered it either. I read Instapundit daily, and he hasn't sais a word. Aside from the Cuban and Cuban-American blogs, the only other site that is covering it, is my good friend Joan Antoni's. He's a great Catalán, and a proven friend of a free Cuba: http://joanantoniguerrero.blogspot.com/

Well, the Brit press DID cover it in an unusually lengthy article; you can find the link on Drudge.

And not having video is a bogus excuse; Yoani, for one, posted a video that was posted here yesterday. It may be local media in Miami doesn't give a !@$%^!, or (my take on it) are deliberately ignoring the news so they don't have to deal with it.

See my comment on worthless nigger above.
Jay Nordlinger gave this tragedy a mention in his Impromptus.
Does anyone here call or write local papers to complain about this? I think a good bombardment of calls and letters might not be a bad idea at this moment, no matter what the papers' response is.

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